His fellows saw him descend and they came running and hastily sanctified their hands and their feet from [the water of] the Laver. They took the shovels and the forks and ascended to the top of the Altar. The limbs and the fats that were not consumed during the night, [the Kohanim] remove them onto the sides of the Altar. If the sides do not hold [these sacrificial parts], [they] arrange them opposite the ledge, on the ramp.

They began piling up the ashes on top of the mound. A mound was in the center of the Altar; at times there were something like three hundred kor [of ashes] on it. And on the festivals they would not remove the ashes [from the Altar] because it was an adornment for the Altar. And in its days the Kohen was never lax in taking out the ashes.